Bloody 1925 prison break ended badly for everyone involved (2 of 2)
THE 1925 PRISON break had a big effect on the state prison. Warden Dalrymple, as mentioned before, had been given the job for political reas...
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Rampant Klan cronyism led to bloody 1925 prison break (1 of 2)
IT WAS A TYPICAL balmy August evening at the Oregon State Penitentiary. The bell had rung for supper, so inmates were streaming out of their...
Brutal ‘Oregon Boot’ made our state prison infamous
Named after the warden who invented it, the “Gardner Shackle” eventually caused serious musculoskeletal damage; many former inmates limped f...
Meteorites that have fallen on the Beaver State (2 of 2)
The Willamette Meteorite is the most famous heavenly body to end up in Oregon, but it’s far from the only one. Here are some of the others.....
Man found meteorite on his neighbor's land ... so he stole it. (1 of 2)
IT WAS GETTING toward the end of the summer of 1902, and West Linn resident Ellis Hughes was getting worried. His neighbor, William Dale, ha...
The last-minute choice that made aviation legend Jim Wright a true hero (Part 3 of 3)
“The plane started to swerve away from the boardwalk, flipped perpendicular to the ground, and crashed into a small hill near the river, win...
Aviator Jim Wright's day of triumph: A new world record at Reno Air Races (Part 2 of 3)
BY THE SPRING of 2002, the plane was finally nearly ready, and Wright was starting to think about getting it into the air. Finally, in mid-J...
Trail Blazers’ fate hung on an extra-long bathroom break: Part 2 of 2
THE PORTLAND TRAIL Blazers, in the summer of 1970, were nothing more than a gleam in the eye of the promoter who’d been banging the “NBA in...
Trail Blazers came to Portland thanks to amazing promoter: Part 1 of 2
Before 1970, Oregon was home to exactly zero major-league teams from any of these sports. But after 1970, it was home to one: The Portland T...
Lola Baldwin's life mission: Battle human trafficking in Portland
“We notice,” Lola Green Baldwin said to the Portland City Council, “that there was $5,030 used this year for the dog pound, and an additiona...
First policewoman was a municipal Rescuer — like Bianca
BY THE TIME Walt Disney Productions released “The Rescuers” in 1977, the idea of a “Rescue Aid Society” dedicated to the eradication of kidn...
Did ‘Vortex I’ prevent riots in downtown Portland?
On that tense late-August weekend, tens of thousands of young people enjoyed themselves at McIver Park, while the much-dreaded riots failed...
McCall expected ‘Vortex I’ to cost him re-election
When McCall green-lighted the plan to distract potential street rioters with a week-long music festival, he fully expected to lose his job f...
Riot at PSU set the stage for ‘Governor’s Pot Party’
To Governor Tom McCall, it looked like Portland was about to explode, and there was nothing he could do to prevent it ... until two long-hai...
Yachter’s treasure caught FBI’s interest too late
DAWN WAS JUST breaking, and Tom McAdams had just barely crawled into bed, when he got the alarm. A 50-foot sailboat was washing ashore near...
Portland's Vaudeville mayor made city famous as well as notorious
Adorably boisterous and hearty, Mayor George Baker was the life of every party. But if you were a supporter of organized labor or an anti-wa...
When The Oregonian newspaper burgled a candidate’s home
Will Daly had earned the sworn enmity of the newspaper's publisher, Henry Pittock, by exposing his plan to steal city water for his lush Wes...
How Stewart Holbrook became Oregon's great storyteller (Part 2 of 2)
'Hols' Holbrook picked Portland for his new home because it had the best library, in his opinion, on the West Coast. Plus, it was smack in t...
Stewart Holbrook: The literary spirit of mid-century Oregon (Part 1 of 2)
NINETY-EIGHT YEARS ago, in a logging camp deep in the forests of British Columbia, a logger in a funny hat walked up to a big stump, an ax i...
How a national mythology was made from massacre
After the missionaries at Waiilatpu were wiped out by a military expedition of the Cayuse tribe, a crafty missionary named Spalding fabricat...